distinctiveness

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The “bar for distinctiveness this year—and every year—is unapologetically high,” Bob Sternfels, McKinsey’s global managing partner, wrote in a memo to staff announcing the new partners.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025

The tension between preserving Jewish distinctiveness and engaging with the rest of society isn’t new.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2024

Furthermore, gene expression analysis also revealed the absence of segmental expression of somitogenesis-related genes, indicating their distinctiveness from somites.

From Science Daily • Jan. 10, 2024

When it first applied to register the trademark, it argued "Cambridge" was often used to refer to the university or its work, which gave the trademark so-called "acquired distinctiveness".

From BBC • Jan. 1, 2024

If you let it, it will take over each and every patch of ground it encounters, adding the soil’s biological and technological distinctiveness to its own.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram